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From: essick@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Changing Set Size and Expire Time
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Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 10:06:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 18 10:06:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!essick    Jun 18 09:06:00 1986


for those occasions where i had to change parameters on LOTS of
notesfiles, i cobbled together a program called "rbefix".
rbefix's function varied over time and my needs.  the basic
documentation was "if you aren't rbe, don't run this program".

rbefix worked by opening all the notesfiles specified on the
command line (but it do wildcard expansion), and doing
"something" to the descriptor for each notesfile.  the something
varied just about each time i ran the program.

i never did put together a nice set of command line options
or documentation, but one instance of rbefix made it into the
standard notesfile distribution.  For those of you that have
the entire distribution, look at file notes/utility/fieldzero.c.
The makefile in that directory should be happy to make 
fieldzero for you.  YOU WILL WANT TO CHANGE THE CODE IN FIELDZERO.

if someone took fieldzero, added option processing so it would
set things like expiration times, network status, etc. based
on command line options, wrote a man page, and sent it back to
me, i would happily put it into my distribution.

--ray essick, university of illinois
--essick@a.cs.uiuc.edu,  uiucdcs!essick